No the figure of 6000 to 10000 years that Young Earth Creationists (so not all creationists) put forward is based on the works of several scholars such as Archbishop James Ussher that looked at looked at the stories in the bible and the Julian calendar and then worked out that the Earth was created on the night preceding Sunday, 23 October 4004 BC. In the Jewish chronologies the creation of the earth is dated between 3751 and 4339 BC.
This is all based on interpretation of the abrahamic texts.
Other creationists and ID proponents cling on to a day = age explanation (a biblical day can be an age spanning thousands to millions of years), and again others go with another old earth variation called Gap Creation (the days are days, but there is a gap between certain days that can be millions of years).
Needless to say, even though none of them accept the ToE, none of them accepts the others interpretation of creationism as true either.
This is all based on interpretation of the abrahamic texts.
Other creationists and ID proponents cling on to a day = age explanation (a biblical day can be an age spanning thousands to millions of years), and again others go with another old earth variation called Gap Creation (the days are days, but there is a gap between certain days that can be millions of years).
Needless to say, even though none of them accept the ToE, none of them accepts the others interpretation of creationism as true either.
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Leo van Miert
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Leo van Miert
Horsepower is how hard you hit the wall --Torque is how far you take the wall with you
